Blush Response calling out Elektron Manuals

Interesting video on your setup @blushresponse

Out of interest - the Rytm sounds integral to your setup, despite all your modular - Midi clock / ableton etc. Do you use the Rytm individual outputs or just the mains? Presume hardwired to your audio interface instead of USB to ableton.

Also do you do your mixing / mastering yourself? Look forward to your release next week.

Guess not got your hands on a Perkons to try yet? That would be an interesting review :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the kind words!

the rytm is my main drum machine. I have all the individual outs routed through a tiptop audio wayout8 so that i can integrate it with my modular effects and i had been recording it that way for the past couple years, but I actually just got a new m2 mac laptop and switched to using overbridge now and it works flawlessly with my current devices (rytm syntakt a4 digitone)

this video was made a couple months back so I hadn’t gotten the new laptop yet

I mix my stuff myself but mastering is handled by others.

Alain Paul and Dadub Mastering are my current favorite engineers, I use either one depending on the project

I have messed with the perkons a bit and there are a couple videos on my channel but I’ve not gotten one in for review yet, perhaps in the future!

I think with the rytm, modular, syntakt, digitone, pulsar 23, and modor dr2 i’m more than covered for drums so i’m not in a super rush to get one tbh

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I guess he’s never had to read the Intellijel Metropolix manual. I don’t know what kind of sick sadistic person wrote that but it’s good for getting my kid to sleep at night.

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Ah cool. I guess you mix mainly in the box (not noticed any outboard etc comps and all that)

Cool your using Overbridge now - I guess that changes how you use modular FX for the Elektrons? (Send and returns in Live?)

I spot the Octatrack remains - guess mainly for sequencing and FX also (scenes etc)

I must of missed your soma video - off for a look on your channel!!!

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yeah i mix in the box, always have

I have dreams of just recording to two track on a big desk like a midas venice or something but I’ve not been brave enough yet

some tracks here and there come out completely unedited but its rare that i get the mix right the first time so I always have to at least adjust some levels

since using overbridge now i dont process the rytm through the modular but i just stick plugins on it to do the same things

octatrack has so many uses for me, it’s one of my favorite devices ever, as a sound source, sample mangler, etc. it also comes in really handy in remixes as I will put people’s stems in there and make new sounds from them

this track is an example of that, the main bass is octatrack with the original track’s stems, and drums are all rytm, i forget what the other sounds are but likely modular:

also here is a track I made in kosovo on someone’s borrowed octatrack straight into a zoom recorder:

the story behind that one is kinda funny, I did a DJ set in kosovo and was there for a couple days and the promoters invited me to a house party and when i got there they had set up an octatrack for me and asked me to perform on it, and that was the result

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Haha - nice of them to provide an Octatrack and some pressure on you to perform :joy:

Cool - will check out the tracks!!

PS - your machinedrum video makes me want to hunt one down

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I WILL EAT YOUR SOUL WHEN YOU SLEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP!!!
:pouting_cat:

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Too late. So inspiring was your speech that I have since burnt all of my manuals, including my son’s Lego manuals. The real destroyers of imaginative and creative thoughts.

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my other cat chichi needs some love too! shes only in the video for a hot minute but shes just as much of a fluff :slight_smile:

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This thread is hilarious.

Who gives a fuck whether or not Joey likes the fucking manuals.

Where I’m from, calling someone out means offering another gentleman to meet you in the car park for a fight.

I would pay to watch Joey fight the OT manual in a car park.

Seriously though, people need to stop using the words ā€œcalling outā€ to describe other people expressing an opinion (especially ones that are obviously pretty tongue in cheek). Load of old shit.

I’ve got a hangover, so you can all shut up.

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I also immediately started trying to figure out who this elektron user named Manuel was, but as it turned out there was more than one, so I soon lost interest as I do in anything that takes more than 3 clicks to achieve.

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I would pay to watch you fight the OT

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sounds like a music meme

All manuals are horrible experiences, because you’re feeling impatient, frustrated and trying to figure something out. Writing manuals is a thankless job.

My only wish is that companies started making online manuals with search, hyperlinks, and a scalable page instead of PDFs.

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eeeeeek :confounded:
What’s wrong with PDFs ? You already got search, hyperlinks, and zoom… :thinking:
Plus you don’t necessarily need a connection to internet…

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connection to the internet is the bane of my existence.

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I can relate. My ND brain glazes over at the mere sight of a manual.

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Ideally, they would use the same source material to generate both a website and a pdf.

edit: AKA Single-source publishing - Wikipedia

ADHD here so reading anything is a challenge, it’s why I stick to turning knobs, much simpler :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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